Tactical police seize handgun

TRENTON — Detectives from the TPD’s Tactical Unit 2 arrested a city man on gun charges following a traffic stop.

TAC 2 was “wolf-packing,” where a group of police vehicles move together while patrolling, through Highland Avenue when a vehicle spotted the pack and began to behave erratically.

The vehicle first sped up to get away from the back, slowed down, then sped up again up a block before pulling over after the two cars put their lights on. The two cars, with one containing detecives Brian Suschke and Fredrick Bender and the other containing detectives Wilfredo Delgado and Jason Astbury, stopped and one of the officers shined a flashlight into the vehicle, where they saw the passenger, Andre McMullen, 22, of Trenton, move his hands in his waistband.

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The officers ordered the occupants of the vehicle to show their hands, but McMullen kept fumbling with his waistband. The officers then ordered everyone out of the car.

“When got out of the car, we could see the butt of the gun,” Sgt. Tony Manzo said.

McMullen, who was previously arrested in 2009 for weapons offenses, was a placed under arrest and was charged with unlawful posession of a weapon and certain persons not to have a weapon.